Allied Warships

USS Dickerson (DD 157)

Destroyer of the Wickes class

NavyThe US Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassWickes 
PennantDD 157 
Built byNew York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down25 May 1918 
Launched12 Mar 1919 
Commissioned3 Sep 1919 
Lost4 Apr 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 25 June 1922
Recommissioned 1 May 1930
Converted to High Speed Transport APD-21 on 21 August 1943
USS Dickerson (Lt.Cdr. Ralph Emerson Lounsbury,Jr. USNR) was irreparably damaged by Japanese Kamikaze Attack off Okinawa 2 April 1945. 51 of the crew were killed including the Commanding officer Lounsbury and the survivors were rescued by the USS Bunch/Herbert though 26 were wounded. However after being towed by USS Arikara to Kerama Retto she was scuttled after being decommissioned on the 04th April,1945.

 

Commands listed for USS Dickerson (DD 157)

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1Lt.Cdr. Ralph Emerson Lounsbury, Jr., USNR1 Jan 19452 Apr 1945 (+)

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18 Mar 1942
USS Dickerson picks up 14 survivors from the American tanker E.M. Clark that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124 about 22 nautical miles south-west of the Diamond Shoals Lighted Buoy in position 34º50'N, 75º35'W.

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